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stevesdropper.bsky.social
Steve Mark
@stevesdropper.bsky.social
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Proud community college professor, ravenous reader, Little Free Librarian, poetry proponent, passionate progressive, yogi, certified yoga and meditation teacher, doting dog dad, happy husband 🏳️‍🌈
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Of all the great signs I saw at yesterday’s #nokings in New Haven, this is the one that will stay with me. #nhv #gscia
October 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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‘Nuff said. #nokings 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
October 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Great turnout in New Haven, CT for the #nokings rally and march. #gscia #nhv
October 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Timely #reading and rereading before and after joining #nokings protests today. #booksky
The Autobiography of Medgaf Evers and Fahrenheit 451
October 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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A friend sent this important reminder to me this morning in honor of my birthday, James Baldwin once again speaking necessary truth across the years, in a time when showing compassion, care, and love, to “magnify each other’s light” is critical work. #hopeinthedark #wisdom #inspiration
"The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light"—James Baldwin
October 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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How I wish this Mary Oliver poem was not so prescient about this terrible moment we are all living through #poetry #poems #truth
OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
September 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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I needed this @nikitagill.bsky.social #poem this very difficult #independenceday and the clear-eyed #inspiration it provides. #hopeinthedark #poetry #persist #resist
July 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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A friend sent me this moving beauty of a #poem yesterday, which gets it so right about our relationship with dogs and why I love them so. #poetry #doglover #poetrylover #dogsofbluesky #dogs #doglife
Full text of Andrew Kane's "How to Be A Dog," which can also be found at https://www.versedaily.org/2020/howtobeadog.shtml
July 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Love this artwork and message from Little Truths Studio #inspiration #hopeinthedark #stillhere #pride #belovedcommunity
In the center of a rainbow, the message "YOU CAN PASS LAWS, BAN BOOKS, TELL US WE DON'T EXIST BUT WE'RE STILL HERE DRINKING OUR COFFEE, SINGING IN THE SHOWER, WALKING OUR DOGS, LOVING EACH OTHER." over two pine trees and diverse folks interacting.
July 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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The flock has gathered at the Little Flamingo Free Library to celebrate National Pink Flamingo Day. #littlefreelibrary #booksky @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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I just finished the best kind of #beachread, an open-hearted, sweet, often funny, and ultimately very readable take on the deeply serious issue of book banning as it unfolds in a small town full of quirky, compelling characters. #booksky #summerreading
Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kristen Miller (displayed in hand on the beach)
June 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Thousands turned out in our small city to rally and march for #nokingsday #nhv #gscia #nokings
June 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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As we prepare to join folks across the country to mark #nokingsday, we hang our flag and put up this reminder that as we stand AGAINST authoritarianism, exclusion, and cruelty, we stand FOR these important values.
IN OUR America ALL PEOPLE ARE EQUAL LOVE WINS BLACK LIVES MATTER IMMIGRANTS & REFUGEES ARE WELCOME DISABILITIES ARE RESPECTED WOMEN ARE IN CHARGE OF THEIR BODIES PEOPLE & PLANET ARE VALUED OVER PROFIT DIVERSITY IS CELEBRATED
June 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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As a queer kid who also found escape and solace in Bewitched, I have long loved this piece by @poetrichardblanco.bsky.social #poetry #lgbtwriters #pridemonth
June 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Whatever is happening elsewhere, #pridemonth is in full swing at the Little Flamingo Free Library #littlefreelibrary #booksky #LGBTwriters
Little free library with multi-colored flamingos and a pride flag waving to celebrate Pride Month.
June 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Watercolor and ink of Harvey Milk by Victoria Ramos, featuring one of his most famous quotations. #pridemonth #inspiration #hope #hopeinthedark #hopewillneverbesilent
Water color and ink drawing of Harvey Milk, with his famous quotation, “Hope will never be silent.”
June 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Just this morning, I finished this gorgeous book and almost can’t imagine emerging from the beautiful, brutal, yet somehow tender world I’ve been immersed in this last week. Ocean Vuong never disappoints. I know I will return to this novel again and again. #booksky #readthis #lgbtwriters
May 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Loving @otroedgargomez.bsky.social’s latest, Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays, which is full of moving, beautiful writing like this passage and more than a few laughs, too. #booksky #lgbtqwriters
“One of my biggest fears as a child was that I wouldn't be ready for the rapture: the day when, out of nowhere, all the perfect, sinless people would be sucked up to the sky and the regular ones would be left behind. I'm not particularly religious anymore, but some days it eels like we're already living it. When I look around me,I don't see any perfect people; just normal, flawed human beings trying to make the best with what they have. The volunteers at Love Wins, who are up before the sun is out to feed families in the neighborhood. Lesly and the students of Mirror, who insist on a life that is dignified and beautiful. The friends who housed and fed me in the pandemic, the co-workers I shared birthdays with in break rooms. My mom, who put on a pair of giant black sunglasses and lipstick to bring fruit to the ladies at her local pantry. It frustrates me to think that the people I love may never be rewarded with everything they deserve, but I'm comforted by the fact that they don't let the current bleakness of the world keep them from fighting to make it a better place. Every day they claim their joy, dreaming out loud with me on the phone, dancing in line outside Friend's, marching through the streets. I don't know what happens after, when this is all over. But wher- ever they're going, that's where I'm trying to go too.”
May 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Visited @possible-futures.bsky.social today for #independentbookstoreday, where I picked up some essential and all-too-timely reads and was the first to purchase Super Gay Poems, so I got some special super gay swag! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 #booknerd #booksky #nhv #gscia
Copies of Jason Staley’s How Fascism Works and Padraig O’ Tuama’s 44 Poems on Being with Each Other resting on a public library tote bag that says “Libraries Save Democracy” and lists some frequently banned classics Copy of Stephanie Burt’s Suoer Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry Arter Stonewall, a super gay poem sticker, bookmark, and tote bag
April 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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A friend sent me these two Troubled Birds cards today, and now I can’t stop imagining an avian army deployed to save our country. 😂#sorrynotsorry
Wide-eyed bird under the words “I poop on fascists.” Wide-eyed bird under the words “I poop on racists.”
April 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Happily celebrating #Worldbookday, so see ya! 😉 #booksky #bookworm
Classic Penguin Book cover with the title GO AWAY I'M READING and the subhead "NO, REALLY"
April 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Spotted this new variation on a theme this morning on a walk around my fair city. #nhv #gscia #signofthetimes #resist #persist #hopeinthedark
KINDNESS IS EVERYTHING SCIENCE IS REAL BLACK LIVES MATTER DIVERSITY IS CELEBRATED HATE IS VOLUNTARY IT'S NOT FAKE NEWS NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL I SUPPORT THE PARIS AGREEMENT WOMEN'S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOR EVERYONE POWER OF LOVE > LOVE OF POWER CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT A HOAX RESIST PERSIST COEXIST
April 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Getting ready for some great conversation in this afternoon’s faculty book group about our *actual* motivations for teaching and how we are and might carry out the radical hope @thetattooedprof.bsky.social calls for in his book. #booksky #hopeinthedark #professorlife
A copy of Kevin Gannon’s Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto with a mug in the background that reads “I became a teacher for the money and fame”
April 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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I picked up this #wisdom from Perla Anne Press at #Charleston City Market over spring break, and glad to start the week with this #art hung in a place over my desk that will keep what's ahead in #perspective #inspiration #supportlocalartists
Use your voice for kindness, your ears for compassion, your hands for charity, your mind for truth, and your heart for love on a block print with a flower
March 31, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Knowing that Meta was so desperate to make this book by a Facebook insider disappear that they got a court injunction barring the author from promoting it makes it essential #weekendreading for me and apparently a lot of other folks, as it has shot to the top of the charts. #booksky #freespeech
Book cover of Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
March 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM